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Find And Run Robot / Re: F&RR does mathematics...

« on: October 13, 2005, 12:27 PM »

+1, though if there is a command line calculator around we could simply use the aliases without mouser having to code anything particular...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another related app : Mayk

« on: October 13, 2005, 11:21 AM »

after we get some more core features done ill go through the code an optimize everything.

Cool. I'm just pushing on the performance front because my current work computer really does take almost 4 seconds for each letterpress, and I am finding I launch the wrong shortcuts as the list visibly updates, slowing me down (launching the wrong shortcut is much slower than just using the start menu...)

Colour coding seems an excellent idea BTW, we could assign colours to specific folders, file types or groups.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Sample mini group alias file for F&R - download here

« on: October 13, 2005, 11:17 AM »

That regex will fail on several addresses (a few non-word characters are allowed, see http://www.remote.or...mail/info/chars.html for more), here is an improved version removing the problem, and also adding an optional subject line:

1000>>>email3>->email $$1 | mailto:$$1?subject=$$2>+>^([^@]+@.+\.[^\s]+)(?:\s?)([^\s]*)

(and it was me who asked for the <enter> changes )

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Another related app : Mayk

« on: October 13, 2005, 10:42 AM »

It has a progressive find feature (weirdly seperated from the main interface, press F9 to activate). I just tested it using Filemon, and setting up the same directories to search in that FARR uses. Here are the number of Read, write and open operations for FARR and Mayk for the search of "op" in 5 folders (timing is from the first to last file operation):

FARR: 12806 (takes 3668ms)
Mayk: 2088 (takes 184ms)

Mayk is really fast, living up to his claim that "Find files fast and easy with preposterously fast search utility". Now it is not doing partial file matching (so "op" matches opera but not CD Copier), but I don't see why that should slow things down so much (and shouldn't cause extra disk activity). 

It is maybe worthwhile trying to see how he gets his search operations so blazingly fast (Filemon has much more info available). FARR seems to spend more time in each directory (it traverses the tree more times than Mayk), and querying each shortcut. I wonder whether this slowdown comes from retrieving the icons? If so an option to not show icons seems highly desirable.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Request - Mind Reading

« on: October 10, 2005, 09:12 PM »

It's already available, check for the hidden preferences tab!

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Find And Run Robot / Feature Request V2 — Drag'n'Drop Config…

« on: October 10, 2005, 02:03 PM »

I didn't bother to install it, but reading the intro, KeyLaunch ( http://software.xfx.net/utilities/kl/ ) has a nice feature for non-techies:

You can either select the file types manually or simply drag and drop a file of the type you want to select into the File Types pane and KeyLaunch will select its type for you.

So if you want KeyLaunch to search for Adobe Acrobat files you don't have to know that these files have a .pdf extension... simply drop an Acrobat Reader document onto the File Types pane and KeyLaunch will recognize the dropped file type automatically.

Now I don't need this but it may be a nice way for general users to set up Search modifiers?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Slim FARR look

« on: October 09, 2005, 04:22 AM »

i suggest we add an option to not show titlebar..

-mouser (October 08, 2005, 08:25 PM)

+1 — the only problem is with skinning, what happens with no title bar, does it use the bottom frame graphics?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Issues with ESC; trying to leave the joint fast…

« on: October 09, 2005, 04:21 AM »

Hmmm, I have several apps where ESC always exits so I prefer consistency (I'm left-handed so ESC is faster for me too), but I understand why you have it as you do, even if it is is non-optimal for me.

OK another question to replace ESC, can you make alt+space symmetrical — what I mean is I use one finger to activate it, rolling from <alt> to <space> but when I'm running fast I sometimes hit <space> first before <alt> — I want either direction to trigger FARR, is that possible?

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Find And Run Robot / Issues with ESC; trying to leave the joint fast…

« on: October 08, 2005, 04:53 PM »

Why do I have to click ESC twice to exit FARR once I started searching? This is even when it has completed a search after letter entry; I originally thought the first ESC halts the search and the second exits, but even when no search is performed ESC needs to be hit twice (first ESC highlights the text so it seems). I'd rather have ESC simply be a one-hit exit button.

Also, when I hit ESC, FARR triggers the default sound which I find annoying, can we have an option to disable the sound effects?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Remove toolbar from main window

« on: October 08, 2005, 03:33 PM »

Screenshot of Stealth on Win2K showing the Barbie Syndrome! With the title removed - that UI is as minimalist as it could ever get!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Remove toolbar from main window

« on: October 08, 2005, 03:19 PM »

I think the pinkish comes from the fake transparency in Win2K, #FF00FF is used as the transparent colour (the biggest limitation of this skin system is not supporting alpha-transparency properly, only fake one). Stealth skin is too weird for me too, but it does do the job of hiding all but the text-entry and table.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: option to remove status bar?

« on: October 08, 2005, 03:14 PM »

i love the skinny itunes!!! woot! best skin ever.
nontroppo, do i have permission to include it with F&R and make it default skin ?

-mouser (October 08, 2005, 02:47 PM)

of course, I basically modified it for you As I prefer going "au naturele"!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Remove toolbar from main window

« on: October 08, 2005, 01:58 PM »

Only problem is the title text goes pinkish! Does it do it on XP? I've hidden the close button too. I don't see a way to turn off title text.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: option to remove status bar?

« on: October 08, 2005, 01:57 PM »

OK, I moved the resizer 1px, but it won't go any further without cutting the right border which will stop the curved effect at the top.

And I shunted the Sys logo a bit, but I didn't want to add extra height to the titlebar as that kinda defeats the purpose of a skinny skin  If you really want it I can make a version with a slightly fatter title... 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature - Folder Search

« on: October 08, 2005, 12:12 PM »

One issue is a performance one, I'd rather see:

+mp3 dylan

The + triggers FARR into knowing there is a search modifier, so turns progressive find off, then once the text is typed FARR can search directly. Otherwise dylan +mp3 will keep hitting the hard disk on each keypress through all folders until FARR parses the final +mp3 — this is highly inefficient, especially if the search modifier is set to a single folder.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key-binding

« on: October 06, 2005, 10:56 AM »

too much typing IMO. Could we not have a preference setting (even manual input) to specify what keys to use so we can personally work round any possible clashes on a per-user basis?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: option to remove status bar?

« on: October 05, 2005, 05:37 PM »

OK, removed another 2-3pixels height from status bar and fixed the table headers:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 05, 2005, 04:54 PM »

th itunes skin also has a messed up skin for table headers when you mouse-over them, if that's correctable..

-mouser (October 05, 2005, 09:54 AM)

Let me see what I can do...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 05, 2005, 04:50 PM »

To make the status bar skinneier, I'll have to cut the rounded bottom corner probably, I'll give it another hack at.

The bug only happens on Win2K with transparency enabled. Happens with any skin, but I think I triggered it once just by resize.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 04, 2005, 10:51 AM »

Effects of resizing after the graphics corruption:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 04, 2005, 10:47 AM »

And a compact iTunes skin:

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 04, 2005, 10:46 AM »

Screenshot shows problems when window resizing is turned on (with transparency on Win2K), it doesn't matter which skin. The bottom section fails to get skinned. If you focus away and back it recovers, but resizing can make it worse (see below post):

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 04, 2005, 07:33 AM »

<offtopic>Here is a tutorial to get the URL bar above the tabs, as in Firefox / IE: http://nontroppo.org/-/media/mainbar.htm</offtopic>

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.18 beta

« on: October 04, 2005, 07:05 AM »

m_s skin 39 is the current closest to milk (a theme I love too btw - I once started a pure milk skin for Opera but it never got finished). BTW why do you have that space at the top of your Opera window, if you upgrade to V8.5 it will disappear!

mouser: can you make it so we don't have to bring up the load requestor to change skins, I want to type manually into the text box and press enter to change skins, as it is faster.

If I get time I'll reskin FARR, but I have many other things on the boil atm...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: importing+exporting alias groups (nontroppo read in)

« on: October 04, 2005, 06:01 AM »

Mouser, can we have an option to export groups to the clipboard directly? Currently we have to export to a file, open it up then copy.